Capitol assault commission sews criminal case against Trump

Former advisers to Donald Trump in the White House are his greatest enemies by recording his commitment to perpetuating himself in power.

Some of those close to him, such as Brad Parscale, his campaign manager, dared to write a letter: “A president calls for civil war. I feel guilty for helping him win.”

The premise is that the protest was not spontaneous, but Trump’s plans to stay in power

The document was presented last Tuesday, at the hearing of the congressional committee investigating the seizure of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 to try to overturn the polling station ruling. Another recognition echoed in that audience. “The violence on that day could have led to a civil war,” said Jason van Tattenhoff, a former spokesman for Out Cars, a fascist paramilitary group involved in its logistics in the failed coup attempt.

The former president stressed that he did not see the seven sessions that took place. This Tuesday he confirmed that he will play golf. But in his surroundings, Trump is known to live obsessed with what is being explained and angry at his former advisers.

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He knows what’s at stake for him, and is aware, moreover, of some polls that testify to the erosion of his base among conservatives since the hearings began.

In the last session, it was clear that the commission had set itself something more than the challenge of chronicling the history of trying to change the outcome of the election. Unequivocally, its components are setting up a potential criminal case against Trump and his allies. On this occasion, they laid down a plot in which the January 6 protest was nothing spontaneous, but responded to the planning of which the former president was the cornerstone, the main organizer of the authoritarian uprising.

Aside from the fact that voices are increasing asking for action from the attorney general, various media outlets confirm that the commission has begun providing information to the Ministry of Justice.

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This last session concluded with a tacit acknowledgment that this commission had already established contacts with the judicial authorities.

Republican Liz Cheney, the commission’s vice chair and the former president’s worst nightmare, announced that they have notified the aforementioned administration of Trump’s attempt to “contact” a potential witness who is already speaking with investigators.

Cheney said that person, who has not yet appeared in public, declined to respond and called his lawyer. He took the call after surprising Cassidy Hutchinson, a former adviser to Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff and another alleged insurgency, last week with his chilling testimony against the former president and his authoritarian behavior.

That testimony, despite its gimmicks, was reinforced in this last session. Pat Cipollone, the former White House legal counsel, replied that his former boss wanted to involve the military to seize the machines used for voting and assumed all kinds of conspiracies were fine at a meeting in the Oval Room on December 18, 2020. Then, the electoral colleges, the judiciary, members of the government or His family (daughter Ivanka) on the lack of election theft.

Rather than conceding the victory to Biden, Trump released a tweet calling for a big demonstration on January 6, 2021. “It’s going to be wild,” he added. Far-right groups began to organize.